Pschytsophrenic Apple

[poolhound]

So LOML came back from the store having bought some fruit and veg and amongst the apples was this one that obviously has a personality disorder.

The different coloring is split virtually down the middle.

Any ideas how this happened?

[Bruce Cohen]

Good Photoshop work, not great, but pretty darn good

Bruce

[poolhound]

Good Photoshop work, not great, but pretty darn good

Bruce

I jest you not but this is 100% real. pics are straight from the camera.

P.S. My photoshop is much better than this :-)

[leehljp]

I wouldn't have a problem with that being in Japan. They often bag each and every apple (and other fruit) on special trees to keep the bugs off and to achieve certain colors - which is done at specific times. I have seen logos place on them and them pulled off at picking time. But these are expensive fruit that are treated that way.

[shoottx]

Sunlight!

[Tom Slick]

obviously the tree was grafted by a skilled cosmetic surgeon.

Is it half gala half fuji?

[Uncle Cracker]

I'd be willing to bet that some type of very stable shading element had much to do with this. Red color in apples depends on development of anthocyanin pigments, and these are greatly affected by light exposure.

[gsmittle]

The reason is obvious: this poor apple wasn't loved by its parents and was probably abused as a seedling-leading to a split personality.

Or that chemistry thingy that UC said...

g.

[Martin]

Sunlight on apples

Years ago, the National Geographic magazine photographers had a project to photograph different fruit growth cycle. The first year insects and birds damaged the subject fruit. So, next year the lab carefully crafted some Plexiglas boxes over some selected blossoms and the cameras operated on a clock cycle to photograph the growth cycle of the apples.
At the end of the growth cycle and at harvest time the photographers had several Plexiglas boxes of very nice mature green apples. The Plexiglas had blocked the appropriate wavelength of sunlight.
On the third year of the project, they got it right with glass boxes.

[shoottx]

Japan has again shown off one of its greatest innovations - square watermelons. But 20 years ago a forward-thinking farmer on Japan's south-western island of Shikoku solved the problem.

The farmer, from Zentsuji in Kagawa prefecture, came up with the idea of making a cube-shaped watermelon which could easily be packed and stored.

To make it happen, farmers grew the melons in glass boxes and the fruit then naturally assumed the same shape. Today the cuboid watermelons are hand-picked and shipped all over Japan.

[poolhound]

cool watermellons, I should try this with my lemon tree, that way I could get consistently sized slices